Sanitary drinking-fountain.



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*b TATES WILLIAM T. BANCROFT AND NEILSON W. VAN LIEW, OF KANSAS CITY,MISSOURI.

SANITARY DRINKING-FOUNTAIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 7, 1911.

Application filed August 16, 1910. SeriaI No. 577,491.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM T. BAN- cnor'r and Nnrnsoiv W. VAN LIEW,citizens of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county ofJackson and State of Hissouri, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Sanitary Drinking-Fountains, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in sanitary drinking fountains,and our main object is to provide a fountain which may be used on publicthoroughfares without fear of spreading glanders and other contagiousdiseases common to horses and other equines.

The invention further provides for watering canines and felines.

It is a well-known fact that the ordinary public drinking fountainconstitutes a grave source of danger in the dissemination of contagiousdiseases, due to the common habit equines have of rubbing their noses onthe rim of the fountain, with the result that mucus deposited by adiseased animal may be taken into the systems of animals subsequentlydrinking at said fountain. "We eliminate this danger by having a sheetof water overflow the rim of the fountain, thereby cleansing the same ofany matter which may be deposited thereon; and in order that theinvention may be fully understood, reference will now be made to theaccompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the fountain. Fig. 2 is a centralvertical section on line 11-11 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a plan view of thefountain.

1 designates the fountain which is made of concrete or other likematerial, and comprises a body portion 2, a base 3, and a basin 4,having an annular rim 5. Body portion 2 is provided at its lower portionwith an inclined annular trough 6.

7 designates an annular pipe embedded in rim 5, and provided at itsupper portion with a series of slots or ports 8 through which water maybe discharged on rim 7 9 designates a supply pipe extending upwardthrough the fountain and connected at one end with a source of watersupply (not shown) and at its opposite end with pipe 7.

10 designates an outlet pipe leading downward through the fountain frombasin i and preferably connected at its lower end to a sewer (notshown).

11 designates a drain pipe leading from the lower side of trough 6 tooutlet pipe 10, the upper end of which latter is flush with the bottomof basin 4: to prevent collection of mucus or other foreign matterlikely to infect animals drinking from the basin.

In practice water is conducted by pipe line to pipe 7 from which itdischarges through the slots or ports 8. A portion of the water thusdischarged flows into the basin 4c while the remainder flows over therim 5, thence down the side of the fountain and into trough 6, where itis accessible to canines and felines. After basin 4 becomes filled thewater overflows therefrom down the side of the fountain to the trough,it following the side of the fountain through the action of capillaryattraction.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that a sheet of water isconstantly overflowing rim 5, thereby keeping the same free from thecollection of mucus or other foreign matter, and thereby preventing thespread of disease to animals drinking at the fountain. The collection ofthe overflow from rim 5 by trough 6 from which the water is conductedthrough drain pipe 11, prevents the water from flowing upon the pavementadjacent to the fountain.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

1. A drinking fountain embodying a basin, a pipe having ports throughwhich water is discharged on the rim of said basin, and an outlet pipefor the basin having a port of less area than the discharge ports of thefirst-mentioned pipe.

2. A drinking fountain embodying a basin, meansfor discharging a sheetof water rounding the fountain to collect the Water on the rim of saidbasin, and a trough 011 the fountain for collecting a portion of theWater discharged on said rim. I

3. A drinking fountain embodying a basin, means for discharging a sheetof Water on the rim of said basin, and a trough surfioWing over saidrim.

4. A drinking fountain embodying a basin, means for discharging a sheetof Water on the rim of said basin, an inclined trough F. G. FISCHER, E.L. MORRISON.

